2010 LA Roadsters Fathers Day Show

The LA Roadsters club was founded in 1957 and started to produce its Fathers Day car show in 1964. The show was originally for nothing but ’36-and-earlier roadsters, and those are still the only cars allowed inside the main show corral. Likewise, the only cars that get past the main gate must be “finished,” as in no primer. That’s why Gray Baskerville’s ’32 was famously turned away one year: the daily driver had a primer splotch on a rear fender.

The show’s spit ‘n’ polish legacy makes it somewhat ironic that the LA Roadsters event is now enjoying a major boom thanks the down ‘n’ dirty retro rodding crowd that embraces patina’d bodies and works in progress as completely legit hot rods. With those cars and their fans packing the show’s home at the Fairplex in Pomona, California, our eye tells us this 46th annual event was one of the biggest LA Roadsters Fathers Day events ever.

Here we’ve got 385 photos of the best stuff we saw, and it’s mostly from the swap meet “outside the fence,” as they say. We continue to be stunned by the volume of original vintage sheetmetal and untouched ’50s-built hot rods that keep coming out of the woodwork, and you’ll see plenty of them here along with a bunch of pictures of the oddball and retro-styled rides at the 2010 show.